Resources

This section is a space where you and your digital curation fellows can list helpful resources such as publications, software, and tools. You can filter the resources below by focus (Learning, Practice, Research, Teaching) and type (Audio and Video et al). If you have an account, you can add a resource by clicking the 'Create resource' link below.

iMacros makes it easy to test web-based applications. You can use iMacros for in-browser functional, performance, and regression testing of web applications. The built-in STOPWATCH command captures exact web page response times. iMacros can be integrated with all other testing and monitoring packages.

WAXToolbar is a firefox extension to help users with common tasks encountered surfing a web archive. This extension depends on the open source wayback machine. Among the features of the WAX Toolbar is a search field for querying the wayback machine OR for searching a full-text NutchWAX index (if one is available). You can also use the toolbar to switch between proxy-mode and the regular Internet; when in proxy-mode you can easily go back and forth in time.

Warrick is a free utility for reconstructing (or recovering) a website when a back-up is not available. Warrick will search the following web repositories for missing resources: Internet Archive, Google, Bing (formerly Live Search), and Yahoo.

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Virtual CloneDrive works and behaves just like a physical CD/DVD drive, but it exists only virtually. Image files generated with CloneDVD or CloneCD can be mounted onto a virtual drive from your hard-disk or from a network drive and used in the same manner as inserting them into a normal CD/DVD drive.

UpLib is a personal digital library system that provides a long-term archival system with powerful search and a visually oriented retrieval mechanism, suitable for a wide variety of personal documents such as papers, photos, receipts, music, Web pages, books, clippings, and email.

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